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---Book Reviews
( ... Continued from page 47.)
comments center on tickets that meet or exceed strict standards of
accountability and provide a solid basis for box office records.
Small theatres that exist in "found" spaces without the benefit of
permanent box office locations must confront a number of security
and equipment problems. Beck presents some viable alternatives to a
permanent box office and includes a thorough discussion of minimum
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insuring continuous box office operation.
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box office operations and price variations due to the scaling of tickets.
"How to Run A Small Box Office" is organized for easy reference
with a complete index of terms used throughout the text. Procedures
are covered from the establishing of a physical box office through the
closing of accounts for a production, with helpful footnotes and numerous forms that can be easily removed from the text. The book is
not designed for theatres with moderate or large auditorium and budgets sufficient to handle the management thereof. but small theatres
will find in it a clear. authoritative. practical approach to the effective
control and accounting of their ticket sales income.
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